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Gold Bar

Fabled Nazi gold train could be discovered this week as researchers get ready to dig


RT
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:09 UTC
Nazi gold train site
© XYZ Spółka Cywilna / YouTube
One year after claiming to have located the mysterious Nazi train filled with gold, treasure hunters in Poland are on the brink of finding out whether it actually exists.

Andreas Richter and Piotr Koper, who in August 2015 said they'd located the train using ground-penetrating radar, will be leading a dig at the site near old railway tracks between the cities of Wroclaw and Walbrzych starting Tuesday.

A privately-funded team of 35 researchers are involved in the search and have been busy preparing the site over the past week.
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Attention

Clinic staffers forget 86-yo Massachusetts woman on dialysis and close facility


RT
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:22 UTC
Maureen Perry
© Erica Crosby
An 86-year-old woman has been rescued from a Massachusetts dialysis clinic after its staff closed the facility for the day, leaving the patient on a dialysis chair. The clinic has apologized, but the family is demanding answers.

Maureen Perry, of Chelmsford, spent several hours locked alone inside the Fresenius Medical Care center after receiving her four-hour dialysis on Saturday.

The old woman, who is bedridden, has her rehabilitation facility to thank for her rescue. Rehab staff alerted Perry's family that she had not returned from the procedure three hours after it finished.

"It's about 5:15pm and we haven't heard from any place, and your grandmother isn't back yet," Perry's granddaughter, Erica Crosby, told reporters.
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Roses

Alabama plane crash kills 3 couples, total of 11 children left behind

Carol Robinson
AL.com
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:16 UTC
Tuscaloosa plane crash
© WBRC/Supplied
A plane crash in Tuscaloosa County has killed six people, three married couples who had attended a dental conference in Florida, and left a total of 11 children behind.

"It's tragic to lose these wonderful Mississippians. Deborah and I pray for the loved and lost, their families and friends,'' said Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant. "Life can be so uncertain, so we depend on the blessing of eternal life and reuniting. May God assauage the families' sorrow and hold them all in the palm of his hand."

The crash happened about 11:20 a.m. just east of the Tuscaloosa Regional Airport in Northport. The crash site is in a wooded field of Van de Graaff Park near an area known as Gate 1.


Tuscaloosa police Lt. Teena Richardson confirmed the six deaths. Northport police officials on the scene said the plane is not intact. Richardson said the plane was traveling from Kissimmee, Florida en route to Oxford, Miss. when the pilot reported engine problems. The pilot sent out distress call, and the plane went down behind the farmers market in Northport. According to Flightaware.com, an Oxford University Aircraft Charters departed the Florida airport at 9:55 a.m. but was diverted.
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Wolf

'Koran for Dummies': Most Daesh recruits ignorant about Islam, AP survey shows


RT
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:54 UTC
Islamic State recruits
© Reuters
Most Islamic State recruits know little about Islam or hardly care about religion at all, an AP investigation shows. Another study found that the few with the most religious knowledge among the ranks of the terrorist group do not rush to become martyrs.

As many as 70 percent of the recruits were said to have had only "basic" knowledge of Islam - one of the three possible choices on an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) recruitment form, according to a study conducted by Associated Press. The agency looked at thousands of leaked IS documents collected by a Syrian site, Zaman al-Wasl, and conducted numerous interviews with former IS fighters.

The probe found that some 24 percent of IS recruits could boast "intermediate" knowledge of Islam and only about 5 percent considered themselves to be "advanced" learners. Only five recruits claimed to have memorized the Koran.
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Pocket Knife

Man with knife goes on rampage inside Austrian train, stabs 2 passengers


RT
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:42 UTC
Austria train knife attack
© Kronen Zeitung / Twitter
A 60-year-old man "with mental health problems" armed with a knife has attacked passengers on a regional train in Austria, injuring two people, police said. The attack is the latest in a string of knife assaults in Europe.

The knife attack took place on a regional train traveling between the Austrian towns of Bludenz and Feldkirch at around 6.30am local time on Thursday, according to local media.

Police said that a German man aged 60 had stabbed a 19-year-old passenger in his stomach, also injuring his back, and afterwards attacked another passenger's neck. The second victim was 17, according to police.
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Arrow Down

Distinguished hospitals in India complicit in organ harvesting


Sputnik News
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 05:39 UTC
Surgery
© RIA Novosti/Grigoriy Sisoev
Five doctors from one of India's most distinguished hospitals were charged this week with performing illegal kidney transplants connected to an organ harvesting ring.

The doctors, including a medical director and a chief executive, worked out of the prestigious L.H. Hiranandani Hospital in Mumbai. The trafficking racket was discovered in July after police were tipped off by poor villagers from Gujarat state who were sold their kidneys.

The trade for illegal organs is booming in India, where it is lawful for people to donate organs to blood relatives in need. The practice of buying and selling organs, however, is banned and punishable by fines and prison sentences.

Unrelated donors can donate organs if the government confirms that no money has changed hands in the transaction. People can also source organs from cadavers or brain-dead patients, with the family's permission, but these options are not common.
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People

Volunteers cleared more than 4 million pounds of trash in the world's largest beach cleanup

Chelsea Harvey
The Washington Post
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
Mumbai’s Versova Beach
© United Nations Environment ProgrammeThe Versova Resident Volunteers are leading the world’s largest beach clean-up at Mumbai’s Versova Beach.
What began as a small group of concerned citizens taking action has spiraled into the largest beach clean-up effort in the world — and in less than a year, it's cleared millions of pounds of debris from the shoreline bordering India's most populous city.

The clean-up effort focuses on Versova beach, a one-and-a-half-mile strip of coastline in western Mumbai facing the Arabian Sea. Historically noted for its prevalent fishing culture, the area has more recently become known for the vast amounts of garbage littering its sandy shore. But now, an ongoing initiative spearheaded by residents of Versova is making steady progress at cleaning up the shoreline.

The effort kicked off last October when 33-year-old lawyer and Versova resident Afroz Shah first took it upon himself to start clearing the beach
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Bulb

What will you do when the lights go out? The inevitable failure of the US power grid

Julianne Geiger
Oil Price
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 22:18 UTC
LNG Terminal
Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company's computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle.

Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Delta's court, saying that "other Georgia Power customers were not affected", and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.

Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go out—everywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?
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Fire

Fire, explosion rocks refinery in St. James Parish, Louisiana


Fox10
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:56 UTC
Explosion at the Motiva refinery
© WAFB
An explosion and fire rocked the Motiva refinery Thursday morning.

The St. James Sheriff's office says the fire and explosion occurred at 10:54 a.m. and is still burning at the facility located on Highway 44 in Convent.

The St. James Parish and Convent Fire departments have responded to the scene. La. Hwy. 70 is closed between La. Hwy. 3125 and La. Hwy. 22 until further notice. A spokesman for the sheriff's office said all employees have been accounted for.

Motiva has activated their emergency response plan monitor air quality in and around the plant. More than 700 people work at the refinery. "The safety of our employees and our community is our first priority," said Hugues Bourgogne, General Manager of the Convent Refinery. "Please bear with us as we focus our attention on accounting for all employees and securing the incident."

According to the Motiva website, including the Convent facility, Motiva owns and operates three refineries - located within a 120-mile radius of each other - in Convent and Norco and Port Arthur, Texas.
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House

Soylent CEO faces charges for "unpermitted" off-grid tiny home

Justin Gardner
Free Thought Project
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 19:28 UTC
Flat Top Hill, Los Angeles
© Martha BenedictFlat Top Hill, Los Angeles
Rob Rhinehart, developer of the "magical milkshake" known as Soylent, has been criminally charged for attempting to build an off-grid "experiment in sustainable living" without obtaining city permits. He could face up to two years in prison and a $4,000 fine.

Rhinehart bought an 8,422-square foot plot of land on Flat Top Hill overlooking the city and placed a shipping container on it, planning to create a minimalist dwelling with solar panels, septic tank and graywater recycling.

However, any time someone wants to live detached from the government-regulated grid and associated extortion fees, it draws the attention of authorities.

Part of the problem may be that he didn't move quickly enough for nearby residents who complained about the large red structure sitting up on the hill. They didn't like that some trash was left behind after Rhinehart hosted a party there, and how the shipping container became the target of graffiti and misbehaving youngsters.

Rhinehart said he would move the structure to a new location, but the city was already working to bring him up on charges. Rhinehart maintains that he spent thousands to improve the land, remove trash and mow the grass on his land and the entire hilltop.
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